Upping notches or two since last release Below the Branches(review), Stoltz is done with lo-fi; preferring now a “mid-hi” aesthetic.

"I work in a second-hand record store and that's made me more of a hi-fi advocate. It's hard for me to listen to stuff that was recorded on a cassette player nowadays. By the last record I was mid-fi. I think I'm mid-hi now!"

Whatever his excuses, you should be able to catch Stoltz on the following shows this month. Starting tonight, at the Wedgewood Rooms, in Portsmouth, with Two Gallants - “mint”, according to DiS’s Gareth Dobson, at Swn last night. Other shows come packed with label mates Blitzen Trapper and The Outdoor Types.